fasten upon

a-spergo ( adsp-, Ritschl, Jan; asp-, others; in MSS. sometimes aspar-go, v. Cort. ad Luc. 1, 384, and Wagner ad Verg. G. 3, 419, and infra examples from Lucr. and Hor.; cf. 2. aspergo), ersi, ersum, 3, v. a. [spargo].

Aliquid (alicui rei), to scatter, strew something on something; or of liquids, to sprinkle, spatter over (syn.: adfundo, inicio; never in Ovid, but he often uses the simple spargo).

Lit.:

aequor Ionium glaucis aspargit virus ab undis,

Lucr. 1, 719 Lachm.:

Ah! adspersisti aquam, Jam rediit animus,

you have dashed water on me, have revived me, Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 15:

Euax, adspersisti aquam,

id. Bacch. 2, 3, 13:

guttam bulbo (with a play upon the names Gutta and Bulbus),

Cic. Clu. 26, 71:

pigmenta in tabulā,

id. Div. 1, 13, 23:

corpus ejus adustum adspergunt aliis carnibus,

Plin. 8, 38, 57, § 136:

liquor adspersus oculis,

id. 12, 8, 18, § 34:

Bubus glandem tum adspergi convenit,

id. 18, 26, 63, § 232:

corpus floribus aspersis veneratus est,

Suet. Aug. 18:

pecori virus aspergere,

to infect, poison, Verg. G. 3, 419:

aspergens cinerem capiti,

Vulg. 2 Reg. 13, 15:

huc tu jussos asperge sapores,

Verg. G. 4, 62:

Non nihil aspersis gaudet Amor lacrimis,

Prop. 1, 12, 16:

sanguinem aspergere,

Vulg. 2 Par. 29, 24:

nivem,

ib. Eccli. 43, 19.—

Trop.:

cum clarissimo viro non nullam laudatione tuā labeculam aspergas,

fasten upon, Cic. Vatin. 17, 41:

ne qua ex tuā summā indignitate labes illius dignitati aspersa videatur,

id. ib. 6, 15:

notam alicui,

Dig. 37, 14, 17 fin. (cf.:

allinere notam,

Cic. Verr. 1, 6, 17).—So of an inheritance, to bestow, bequeath something to, to set apart for:

Aebutio sextulam aspergit,

Cic. Caecin. 6, 17.— Poet.:

alas: lacteus extentas aspergit circulus alas,

Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 175.—In gen., to add to, to join, = adjungere:

si illius (sc. Catonis majoris) comitatem et facilitatem tuae gravitati severitatique asperseris,

Cic. Mur. 31 fin.:

huic generi orationis aspergentur etiam sales,

id. Or. 26, 87; id. ad Q. Fr. 2, 10:

hos aspersi, ut scires etc.,

id. Fam. 2, 16 fin. —

Aliquem or aliquid aliquā re (cf. Ramsh. Gr. p. 362; Zumpt, Gr. § 418), to strew some person or thing with something, to splash over, besprinkle, bespatter, bedew, lit. and trop.

Lit.:

ah, guttulā Pectus ardens mihi adspersisti (cf. supra, aquam),

Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 28:

quas (sedes) nec nubila nimbis Aspergunt,

Lucr. 3, 20:

ne aram sanguine aspergeret,

Cic. N. D. 3, 36, 88; so Vulg. 4 Reg. 9, [p. 175] 33; ib. Apoc. 19, 13:

sanguine mensas,

Ov. M. 5, 40; and with de:

asperget de sanguine ejus (turturis) parietem altaris,

Vulg. Lev. 5, 9:

vaccam semine,

Liv. 41, 13:

Vinxit et aspersas altera vitta comas,

the sprinkled hair, Prop. 5, 11, 34 (Müller, † acceptas):

imbre lutoque Aspersus,

Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 12 K. and H.; Claud. B. Gild. 494:

aquā,

Vulg. Num. 8, 7; ib. 2 Macc. 1, 21:

hyssopo,

ib. Psa. 50, 9:

cinere,

ib. Jer. 25, 34:

terrā,

ib. 2 Macc. 10, 25 al.—

Trop.:

(Mons Idae) primo parvis urbibus aspersus erat,

dotted over with, Mel. 1, 18, 2:

aures gemitu,

to fill, Val. Max. 3, 3, ext. 1:

auditiunculā quādam aspersus, i. e. imbutus,

instructed, Gell. 13, 19, 5:

aspersi corda a conscientiā malā,

Vulg. Heb. 10, 22.—Esp., to spot, stain, sully, defile, asperse:

hunc tu vitae splendorem maculis aspergis istis?

Cic. Planc. 12, 30; so also absol.:

leviter aspersus,

id. Fam. 6, 6, 9:

istius facti non modo suspitione, sed ne infamiā quidem est aspersus,

id. Cael. 10; so Liv. 23, 30:

aspergebatur etiam infamiā, quod, etc.,

Nep. Alcib. 3 fin.; so Suet. Ner. 3: aliquem linguā, Auct. ad Her. 4, 49, 62:

e quibus unus amet quāvis aspargere cunctos, i. e. quibusvis dicteriis perstringere, laedere,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 87 K. and H.

aspergo (Merk., Müller, Strüb.; in MSS. sometimes aspargo, Lachm., Rib., e. g. Verg. A. 3, 534, acc. to Non. p. 405, 5, and Vel. Long. p. 2234 P.; v. 1. aspergo), ĭnis, f. (in the ante-class. per. com. acc. to Prisc. p. 658 P.) [1. aspergo].

A sprinkling, besprinkling (most freq. in the poets, never in Cic., who uses aspersio, q. v.):

aspergo aquarum,

Ov. M. 7, 108:

aquae,

Petr. 102, 15:

(Peneus) Nubila conducit, summasque aspergine silvas Impluit,

Ov. M. 1, 572:

sanguis virides aspergine tinxerat herbas,

id. ib. 3, 86;

3, 683 al.: Aspergine et gelu pruinisque (lapides) rumpuntur,

Plin. 36, 22, 48, § 167:

parietum,

the moisture, sweat, upon walls, Cato, R. R. 128; so Vitr. 5, 11, 1, and Plin. 22, 21, 30, § 63.— Trop.:

omni culparum aspergine liber,

Prud. Apoth. 1005.—

Meton. (abstr. for concr.), that which is sprinkled, drops:

hic ubi sol radiis.... Adversa fulsit nimborum aspargine contra,

opposite to the falling rain, Lucr. 6, 525 Lachm.:

Objectae salsā spumant aspargine cautes,

the spray, Verg. A. 3, 534:

Flammiferā gemini fumant aspergine postes,

Ov. M. 14, 796:

maduere graves aspergine pennae,

id. ib. 4, 729:

arborei fetus aspergine caedis in atram Vertuntur faciem,

by means of the sprinkled blood, id. ib. 4, 125 al.

a-spergo ( adsp-, Ritschl, Jan; asp-, others; in MSS. sometimes aspar-go, v. Cort. ad Luc. 1, 384, and Wagner ad Verg. G. 3, 419, and infra examples from Lucr. and Hor.; cf. 2. aspergo), ersi, ersum, 3, v. a. [spargo].

Aliquid (alicui rei), to scatter, strew something on something; or of liquids, to sprinkle, spatter over (syn.: adfundo, inicio; never in Ovid, but he often uses the simple spargo).

Lit.:

aequor Ionium glaucis aspargit virus ab undis,

Lucr. 1, 719 Lachm.:

Ah! adspersisti aquam, Jam rediit animus,

you have dashed water on me, have revived me, Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 15:

Euax, adspersisti aquam,

id. Bacch. 2, 3, 13:

guttam bulbo (with a play upon the names Gutta and Bulbus),

Cic. Clu. 26, 71:

pigmenta in tabulā,

id. Div. 1, 13, 23:

corpus ejus adustum adspergunt aliis carnibus,

Plin. 8, 38, 57, § 136:

liquor adspersus oculis,

id. 12, 8, 18, § 34:

Bubus glandem tum adspergi convenit,

id. 18, 26, 63, § 232:

corpus floribus aspersis veneratus est,

Suet. Aug. 18:

pecori virus aspergere,

to infect, poison, Verg. G. 3, 419:

aspergens cinerem capiti,

Vulg. 2 Reg. 13, 15:

huc tu jussos asperge sapores,

Verg. G. 4, 62:

Non nihil aspersis gaudet Amor lacrimis,

Prop. 1, 12, 16:

sanguinem aspergere,

Vulg. 2 Par. 29, 24:

nivem,

ib. Eccli. 43, 19.—

Trop.:

cum clarissimo viro non nullam laudatione tuā labeculam aspergas,

fasten upon, Cic. Vatin. 17, 41:

ne qua ex tuā summā indignitate labes illius dignitati aspersa videatur,

id. ib. 6, 15:

notam alicui,

Dig. 37, 14, 17 fin. (cf.:

allinere notam,

Cic. Verr. 1, 6, 17).—So of an inheritance, to bestow, bequeath something to, to set apart for:

Aebutio sextulam aspergit,

Cic. Caecin. 6, 17.— Poet.:

alas: lacteus extentas aspergit circulus alas,

Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 175.—In gen., to add to, to join, = adjungere:

si illius (sc. Catonis majoris) comitatem et facilitatem tuae gravitati severitatique asperseris,

Cic. Mur. 31 fin.:

huic generi orationis aspergentur etiam sales,

id. Or. 26, 87; id. ad Q. Fr. 2, 10:

hos aspersi, ut scires etc.,

id. Fam. 2, 16 fin. —

Aliquem or aliquid aliquā re (cf. Ramsh. Gr. p. 362; Zumpt, Gr. § 418), to strew some person or thing with something, to splash over, besprinkle, bespatter, bedew, lit. and trop.

Lit.:

ah, guttulā Pectus ardens mihi adspersisti (cf. supra, aquam),

Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 28:

quas (sedes) nec nubila nimbis Aspergunt,

Lucr. 3, 20:

ne aram sanguine aspergeret,

Cic. N. D. 3, 36, 88; so Vulg. 4 Reg. 9, [p. 175] 33; ib. Apoc. 19, 13:

sanguine mensas,

Ov. M. 5, 40; and with de:

asperget de sanguine ejus (turturis) parietem altaris,

Vulg. Lev. 5, 9:

vaccam semine,

Liv. 41, 13:

Vinxit et aspersas altera vitta comas,

the sprinkled hair, Prop. 5, 11, 34 (Müller, † acceptas):

imbre lutoque Aspersus,

Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 12 K. and H.; Claud. B. Gild. 494:

aquā,

Vulg. Num. 8, 7; ib. 2 Macc. 1, 21:

hyssopo,

ib. Psa. 50, 9:

cinere,

ib. Jer. 25, 34:

terrā,

ib. 2 Macc. 10, 25 al.—

Trop.:

(Mons Idae) primo parvis urbibus aspersus erat,

dotted over with, Mel. 1, 18, 2:

aures gemitu,

to fill, Val. Max. 3, 3, ext. 1:

auditiunculā quādam aspersus, i. e. imbutus,

instructed, Gell. 13, 19, 5:

aspersi corda a conscientiā malā,

Vulg. Heb. 10, 22.—Esp., to spot, stain, sully, defile, asperse:

hunc tu vitae splendorem maculis aspergis istis?

Cic. Planc. 12, 30; so also absol.:

leviter aspersus,

id. Fam. 6, 6, 9:

istius facti non modo suspitione, sed ne infamiā quidem est aspersus,

id. Cael. 10; so Liv. 23, 30:

aspergebatur etiam infamiā, quod, etc.,

Nep. Alcib. 3 fin.; so Suet. Ner. 3: aliquem linguā, Auct. ad Her. 4, 49, 62:

e quibus unus amet quāvis aspargere cunctos, i. e. quibusvis dicteriis perstringere, laedere,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 87 K. and H.

aspergo (Merk., Müller, Strüb.; in MSS. sometimes aspargo, Lachm., Rib., e. g. Verg. A. 3, 534, acc. to Non. p. 405, 5, and Vel. Long. p. 2234 P.; v. 1. aspergo), ĭnis, f. (in the ante-class. per. com. acc. to Prisc. p. 658 P.) [1. aspergo].

A sprinkling, besprinkling (most freq. in the poets, never in Cic., who uses aspersio, q. v.):

aspergo aquarum,

Ov. M. 7, 108:

aquae,

Petr. 102, 15:

(Peneus) Nubila conducit, summasque aspergine silvas Impluit,

Ov. M. 1, 572:

sanguis virides aspergine tinxerat herbas,

id. ib. 3, 86;

3, 683 al.: Aspergine et gelu pruinisque (lapides) rumpuntur,

Plin. 36, 22, 48, § 167:

parietum,

the moisture, sweat, upon walls, Cato, R. R. 128; so Vitr. 5, 11, 1, and Plin. 22, 21, 30, § 63.— Trop.:

omni culparum aspergine liber,

Prud. Apoth. 1005.—

Meton. (abstr. for concr.), that which is sprinkled, drops:

hic ubi sol radiis.... Adversa fulsit nimborum aspargine contra,

opposite to the falling rain, Lucr. 6, 525 Lachm.:

Objectae salsā spumant aspargine cautes,

the spray, Verg. A. 3, 534:

Flammiferā gemini fumant aspergine postes,

Ov. M. 14, 796:

maduere graves aspergine pennae,

id. ib. 4, 729:

arborei fetus aspergine caedis in atram Vertuntur faciem,

by means of the sprinkled blood, id. ib. 4, 125 al.

in-necto, nexŭi, nexum, 3 (innectier for innecti, Prud. Psych. 375), v. a., to tie, join, bind, attach, connect, or fasten to, together, or about.

Lit.:

paribus palmas amborum innexuit armis,

Verg. A. 5, 425:

colla auro,

id. ib. 8, 661:

tempora sertis,

to deck, garland, Ov. Tr. 5, 3, 3:

fauces laqueo,

to encircle, id. M. 10, 378:

colla lacertis,

id. ib. 11, 240:

bracchia collo,

Stat. Th. 4, 26:

ambos innectens manibus,

id. ib. 1, 511:

mancipia compedibus,

Col. 11, 1, 22: innecti cervicibus, to fasten upon, cling to, or embrace the neck, Tac. H. 4, 46; cf.:

tunc placuit caesis innectere vincula silvis,

Luc. 2, 670; v. Orelli ad Hor. Epod. 17, 72.— With acc.:

nodos et vincula rupit, Queis innexa pedem malo pendebat ab alto,

Verg. A. 5, 511:

vipereum crinem vittis innexa cruentis,

id. ib. 6, 281.—

Trop.

In gen., to connect one thing with another, adduce or devise successively, weave, frame, contrive:

causas innecte morandi,

Verg. A. 4, 51:

moras,

Stat. Th. 5, 743:

fraudem clienti,

Verg. A. 6, 609.—

In partic.

To entangle, implicate:

innexus conscientiae alicujus,

Tac. A. 3, 10.—

To join, connect:

Hyrcanis per affinitatem innexus erat,

Tac. A. 6, 36:

motus animi innexi implicatique vigoribus quibusdam mentium,

Gell. 19, 2, 3:

mentem, i. e. veneficio illigare,

Sen. Hipp. 416.

fasten down, secure, fix firmly/ concentrate, fix upon.

* * *

dē-fīgo, xi, xum, 3, v. a., to fasten down or in; and with especial reference to the terminus, to drive, fix, or fasten into (class.). —

Lit.: in campo Martio crucem ad civium supplicium defigi et constitui jubes, Cic. Rab. perd. 4; so,

tigna machinationibus immissa in flumen,

Caes. B. G. 4, 17, 4:

sudes sub aqua,

id. ib. 5, 18, 3:

asseres in terra defigebantur,

id. B. C. 2, 2; Liv. 44, 5:

verutum in balteo,

Caes. B. G. 5, 44, 7:

sicam in consulis corpore,

to thrust, Cic. Cat. 1, 6; cf.:

cultrum in corde,

Liv. 1, 58 fin.:

tellure hastas,

Verg. A. 12, 130; cf. id. ib. 6, 652:

gladium superne jugulo,

Liv. 1, 25; cf. Ov. M. 13, 436 al.: cruci defiguntur, Varr. ap. Non. 221, 13:

arborem penitus terrae,

Verg. G. 2, 290:

te hodie, si prehendero, defigam in terram colaphis,

Plaut. Pers. 2, 4, 22 (for which, shortly after, cruci affigere):

morsus in aurem,

Plin. 8, 12, 12, § 34:

clavum percussum malleo in cerebrum,

Vulg. Judic. 4, 21; Eccles. 12, 11. —

Meton. (Causa pro effectu.) To fix, fasten, render immovable (rare):

defixa caelo sidera,

Hor. Epod. 17, 5; cf. Ov. M. 11, 76:

defixere aciem in his vestigiis,

have fixed them motionless, Tac. Agr. 34; cf.:

defixi et Neronem intuentes,

id. A. 13, 16:

sedeo defixus,

Plin. Ep. 9, 34, 1:

me defixum in ora, etc.,

Prop. 1, 8, 15.—

Esp. in phrase, manus defigere, to strike hands, i. e., to close a contract as surety, to pledge one's person, Vulg. Prov. 6, 1; 22, 26.—

Trop.

In gen., to fix, fasten; to turn intently in any direction:

virtus est una altissimis defixa radicibus,

Cic. Phil. 4, 5:

oculos in vultu regis,

Curt. 7, 8:

iratos oculos in te,

Ov. Am. 2, 18, 15:

in alicujus possessiones oculos defigere,

Cic. Phil. 11, 5, 10:

oculos defigere in terram,

Quint. 11, 3, 158; Curt. 9, 3.— Absol.:

oculos,

to let fall, cast down, Tac. A. 3, 1:

Aeneas defixus lumina,

Verg. A. 6, 156:

animos in ea, quae perspicua sunt,

Cic. Ac. 2, 15:

disputare non vaganti oratione, sed defixa in una republica,

id. Rep. 1, 11; cf.:

in eo mentem orationemque defigit,

id. de Or. 3, 8, 31:

omnes suas curas in reip. salute,

id. Phil. 14, 5, 13; id. Verr. 1, 3; cf. id. Prov. Cons. 4, 8.—

In partic.

To strike motionless, sc. with astonishment, etc.; to stupefy, astound, astonish (not freq. till after the Aug. per.):

utraque simul objecta res oculis animisque immobiles parumper eos defixit,

Liv. 21, 33; so,

aliquem,

id. 3, 47; 6, 40 al.: silentium triste ita defixit omnium animos, ut, etc., Liv. 1, 29.—In the part. perf.:

dum stupet obtutuque haeret defixus in uno,

Verg. A. 1, 495; 6, 156; 7, 249; Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 14; Liv. 8, 7; Tac. A. 1, 68; 13, 5 et saep.—

Religious t. t.

To declare fixedly, firmly, unalterably:

QVAE AVGVR VITIOSA, DIRA DEFIXERIT, IRRITA SVNTO,

Cic. Leg. 2, 8 fin. —

(Because, in making imprecations, the waxen image of him for whom destruction was to be prepared, or his name written in wax, was stuck through with a needle; cf. Ov. H. 6, 91 sq., and Voss upon Verg. E. 8, 80.) To bewitch, enchant; to curse any thing:

caput alicujus dira imprecatione,

Sen. Ben. 6, 35:

defigi imprecationibus,

Plin. 28, 2, 4, § 19:

nomina cerā,

Ov. Am. 3, 7, 29; cf.:

DEFIXA NOMINA,

Inscr. Orell. 3726:

regis animum Iolchiacis votis,

Verg. Cir. 376.—

To censure, reprove a thing:

culpam,

Pers. 5, 16.

in-cŭbo, ŭi, ĭtum, āre (rarely āvi, ātum, in the sense of to brood), 1, v. n. and a., to lie in a place or upon a thing (class.).

Lit.:

hic leno aegrotus incubat in Aesculapii fano,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 61: namque incubare satius te fuerat Jovi, against (the statue of) Jupiter, id. ib. 2, 2, 16:

umero incubat hasta,

rests, lies upon her shoulder, Ov. M. 6, 593:

ipsi caetris superpositis incubantes flumen tranavere,

Liv. 21, 27, 5:

his (utribus) incubantes tranavere amnem,

Curt. 7, 21, 18.— Poet.: ferro, to fall upon one ' s sword, Sen. Hippol. 259.— In part. pres.: incubans, lying near to, bordering upon:

jugum mari,

Plin. 6, 17, 20, § 53.—

In partic.

To sit upon eggs, to brood, to hatch:

gallinas incubare fetibus alienigenis patiemur,

Col. 8, 5, 10:

ova gallinis incubanda subicere,

Plin. 10, 59, 79, § 161:

ova incubita,

id. 29, 3, 11, § 45.—

To abide or dwell in:

rure incubabo in praefectura mea,

Plaut. Cas. 1, 1, 21:

lucos et specus,

to inhabit, App. M. 4, p. 150, 15. —

Pregn.: tabernulam littori proximam, vitatis maris fluctibus, incubabant,

i. e. entered and lodged, App. M. 7, p. 190.—

To be in, lie in, rest in or on:

purpura atque auro,

Sen. Thyest. 909:

pavidusque pinnis anxiae noctis vigil incubabat,

on his wings, id. ib. 570 sq.—

To cling to, fall upon, said of mourners over the dead, etc.:

indigna fui marito accendisse rogum, incubuisse viro?

Luc. 9, 57; 8, 727; cf. id. 2, 27 al.—

Trop., to brood over, to watch jealously over a thing, either to keep or get possession of it:

qui illi pecuniae, quam condiderat, spe jam atque animo incubaret,

Cic. Clu. 26, 72:

auro,

Verg. G. 2, 507:

divitiis,

id. A. 6, 610:

publicis thesauris,

to retain sole possession of, Liv. 6, 15:

opimae praedae,

Flor. 2, 10, 2.—

To press upon, weigh upon, be a burden to, fasten on:

ut inhaerentem atque incubantem Italiae extorqueret Annibalem,

Flor. 2, 6, 57:

protervus menti furor,

Sen. Hippol. 268:

illi mors gravis incubat,

id. Thyest. 401.—

To settle on, attach one ' s self to any thing. — Absol., of bees:

nisi incubavere,

Plin. 11, 16, 15, § 45.— Usually with dat.:

leo victor armento incubat,

Sen. Thyest. 733:

ponto nox incubat atra,

glooms over, darkens, Verg. A. 1, 89:

quamvis ipsis urbis faucibus incubaret,

took up a position at, Flor. 1, 10, 2;

but cf.: pigra incubat Caligo terras,

Avien. Or. Mar. 236:

caelum quod incubat urbi,

Val. Fl. 2, 494.

incŭbo, ōnis, m. [1. incubo], one who lies upon any thing.

A spirit that watches over buried treasures (post-class.):

cum modo incuboni pileum rapuisset, thesaurum invenit,

Petr. Fragm. Trag. 38, 8.—

The nightmare, incubus (post-class.):

ab incubone deludi,

Scrib. Comp. 100:

de incubone praesumptio,

Tert. Anim. 44.

sisto, stĭti (Charis. p. 220, and Diom. p. 369, give steti for both sisto and sto, confining stiti to the compounds of both. But steti, as perfect of sisto, is late jurid. Lat., and perh. dub.;

for steterant,

Verg. A. 3, 110;

steterint,

id. ib. 3, 403; Liv. 8, 32, 12, belong to stare; cf. also Gell. 2, 14, 1 sqq.; and v. Neue, Formenl. 2, 461 sq.), stătum [root stă, strengthened by reduplication; cf. histêmi], used in two general senses, I. To cause to stand, place, = colloco, pono; II. To stand, be placed, = sto.

Sistere, in gen., = collocare (in class. prose only in the partic. uses, v. A. 4. C. and D., infra).

Causative, with acc.

To place = facere ut stet; constr. with in and abl., with abl. alone, and with ad, super, etc., and acc.:

O qui me gelidis in vallibus Haemi Sistat,

Verg. G. 2, 489:

tertia lux classem Cretaeis sistet in oris,

id. A. 3, 117 (classis stat;

v. sto): inque tuo celerem litore siste gradum,

Ov. H. 13, 102 (cf. infra, III. 2. A.):

jaculum clamanti (al. clamantis) sistit in ore,

plants the dart in his face, Verg. A. 10, 323:

disponit quas in fronte manus, medio quas robore sistat,

Stat. Th. 7, 393:

(equum ligneum) sacratā sistimus arā,

Verg. A. 2, 245:

aeternis potius me pruinis siste,

Stat. Th. 4, 395: ut stata (est) lux pelago, as soon as light was set ( shone) on the sea, id. ib. 5, 476:

victima Sistitur ante aras,

Ov. M. 15, 132:

quam (suem) Aeneas ubi... sistit ad aram,

Verg. A. 8, 85:

post haec Sistitur crater,

Ov. M. 8, 669: vestigia in altero (monte) sisti (non posse), that no footprints can be placed ( made) on the other mountain, Plin. 2, 96, 98, § 211:

cohortes expeditas super caput hostium sistit,

Tac. H. 3, 77; cf. id. A. 12, 13; Stat. Th. 4, 445; Sil. 4, 612. —

To place, as the result of guidance or conveyance; hence, to convey, to send, lead, take, conduct to, = facere ut veniat; constr. with in and abl., with abl. alone, and with advv. of place: officio meo ripā sistetur in illā Haec, will be carried by me to, etc., Ov. M. 9, 109:

terrā sistēre petitā,

id. ib. 3, 635:

(vos) facili jam tramite sistam,

Verg. A. 6, 676:

ut eum in Syriā aut Aegypto sisterent orabat,

to convey him to, Tac. H. 2, 9.—So with hic (= in with abl.) or huc (= in with acc.):

hic siste patrem,

Sen. Phoen. 121:

Annam huc siste sororem,

Verg. A. 4, 634.—

To place an army in order of battle, draw up, = instruere:

aciem in litore sistit,

Verg. A. 10, 309; cf.:

sistere tertiam decimam legionem in ipso aggere jubet,

Tac. H. 3, 21.—

Se sistere = to betake one's self, to present one's self, to come (so twice in Cicero's letters):

des operam, id quod mihi affirmasti, ut te ante Kal. Jan., ubicumque erimus, sistas,

Cic. Att. 3, 25:

te vegetum nobis in Graeciā sistas,

id. ib. 10, 16, 6 (cf. infra, E.):

hic dea se primum rapido pulcherrima nisu Sistit,

Verg. A. 11, 853.—

With two acc. (cf.: praesto, reddo) = to cause to be in a certain condition, to place, etc.; often with dat. of interest (ante- and post-class., and poet.; cf.

supra, 4.): ego vos salvos sistam,

I will place you in safety, see you to a safe place, Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 5:

omnia salva sistentur tibi,

all will be returned to you in good order, id. ib. 5, 3, 3; so,

suam rem sibi salvam sistam,

id. Poen. 5, 2, 123; cf.:

rectius tacitas tibi res sistam, quam quod dictum est mutae mulieri,

will keep your secrets, id. ib. 4, 2, 54:

neque (dotem) incolumem sistere illi, et detraxe autument,

that you deliver it entire to her, id. Trin. 3, 3, 15:

cum te reducem aetas prospera sistet,

Cat. 64, 238: tu modo servitio vacuum me siste (= praesta) superbo, set me free from, Prop. 4, 16 (3, 17), 42:

tutum patrio te limine sistam,

will see you safe home, Verg. A. 2, 620:

praedā onustos triumphantesque mecum domos reduces sistatis,

Liv. 29, 27, 3 Weissenb. ad loc.:

Pelasgis siste levem campum,

Stat. Th. 8, 328:

modo se isdem in terris victorem sisterent,

Tac. A. 2, 14:

operā tuā sistas hunc nobis sanum atque validum,

give him back to us, safe and sound, Gell. 18, 10, 7: ita mihi salvam ac sospitem rempublicam sistere in suā sede liceat, Aug. ap. Suet. Aug. 28.—

Neutr, with double nom., = exsistere, to be, to become: judex extremae sistet vitaeque necisque, he will become a judge, etc., Manil. 4, 548 (dub.):

tempora quod sistant propriis parentia signis,

id. 3, 529 (dub.; al. sic stant; cf. infra, II.).—

As neuter verb, to stand, rest, be placed, lie ( poet.);

constr. like sto: ne quis mihi obstiterit obviam, nam qui obstiterit, ore sistet,

will lie on his face, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 13 Brix ad loc.: (nemo sit) tantā gloriā... quin cadat, quin capite sistat, will be placed or stand on his head, id. Curc. 2, 3, 8:

ibi crebro, credo, capite sistebant cadi,

id. Mil. 3, 2, 36 Lorenz (Brix, hoc illi crebro capite):

ipsum si quicquam posse in se sistere credis,

to rest upon itself, Lucr. 1, 1057:

neque posse in terrā sistere terram,

nor can the earth rest upon itself, id. 2, 603:

at conlectus aquae... qui lapides inter sistit per strata viarum,

id. 4, 415:

incerti quo fata ferant, ubi sistere detur,

to rest, to stay, Verg. A. 3, 7; cf.:

quaesitisque diu terris, ubi sistere detur,

Ov. M. 1, 307. —

As jurid. term.

In both a causative and neuter sense = to produce in court, or to appear in court after being bound over by the judge or by promise to the adversary (vadimonium); constr. either absol. or with the dat. of the adversary to whom the promise is made (alicui sisti), to appear upon somebody's demand; also, in judicio sisti. The present active is either used reflexively (se sistere = to appear), or with a transitive object (sistere aliquem = to produce in court one in whose behalf the promise has been made). The present passive, sisti, sistendus, sistitur, = to appear or to be produced. The perfect act., stiti, stitisse, rarely the perfect passive, status sum, = to have appeared, I appeared. So in all periods of the language:

cum autem in jus vocatus fuerit adversarius, ni eo die finitum fuerit negotium, vadimonium ei faciendum est, id est ut promittat se certo die sisti,

Gai. 4, 184:

fit ut Alfenus promittat, Naevio sisti Quinctium,

that Quinctius would be forthcoming upon Naevius's complaint, Cic. Quint. 21, 67; cf. id. ib. 8, 30 (v. infra, B.):

testificatur, P. Quinctium non stitisse, et se stitisse,

id. ib. 6, 25:

quin puellam sistendam promittat (= fore ut puella sistatur in judicio),

Liv. 3, 45, 3:

interrogavit quisquam, in quem diem locumque vadimonium promitti juberet, et Scipio manum ad ipsam oppidi, quod obsidebatur, arcem protendens: Perendie sese sistant illo in loco,

Gell. 7, 1, 10:

si quis quendam in judicio sisti promiserit, in eādem causā eum debet sistere,

Dig. 2, 11, 11:

si servum in eādem causā sistere promiserit, et liber factus sistatur,... non recte sistitur,

ib. 2, 9, 5:

sed si statu liberum sisti promissum sit, in eādem causā sisti videtur, quamvis liber sistatur,

ib. 2, 9, 6:

cum quis in judicio sisti promiserit, neque adjecerit poenam si status non esset,

ib. 2, 6, 4:

si quis in judicio secundum suam promissionem non stitit,

ib. 2, 11, 2, § 1; cf. ib. 2, 5, 1; 2, 8, 2; 2, 11, 2, § 3.—

Vadimonium sistere, to present one's self in court, thus keeping the solemn engagement (vadimonium) made to that effect; lit., to make the vadimonium stand, i. e. effective, opp. deserere vadimonium = not to appear, to forfeit the vadimonium. The phrase does not occur in the jurists of the Pandects, the institution of the vadimonium being abolished by Marcus Aurelius. It is found in the following three places only: quid si vadimonium capite obvoluto stitisses? Cat. ap. Gell. 2, 14, 1: ut Quinctium sisti Alfenus promitteret. Venit Romam Quinctius;

vadimonium sistit,

Cic. Quint. 8, 30:

ut nullum illa stiterit vadimonium sine Attico,

Nep. Att. 9; Gai. 4, 185; cf. diem sistere under status, P. a. infra.—

Transf., out of judicial usage, in gen., = to appear or present one's self, quasi ex vadimonio; constr. absol. or with dat. of the person entitled to demand the appearance:

ubi tu es qui me vadatus's Veneriis vadimoniis? Sisto ego tibi me, et mihi contra itidem ted ut sistas suadeo (of a lover's appointment),

Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 5; so,

tibi amatorem illum alacrem vadimonio sistam,

produce, App. M. 9, p. 227, 14:

nam promisimus carnufici aut talentum magnum, aut hunc hodie sistere,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 73:

vas factus est alter ejus sistendi, ut si ille non revertisset, moriendum esset sibi,

Cic. Off. 3, 10, 45. —

Fana sistere, acc. to Festus anciently used, either = to place ( secure and fix places for) temples in founding a city, or to place the couches in the lectisternia:

sistere fana, cum in urbe condendā dicitur, significat loca in oppido futurorum fanorum constituere: quamquam Antistius Labeo, in commentario XV. juris pontificii ait fana sistere esse lectisternia certis locis et diebus habere,

Fest. p. 267 Lind. To this usage Plaut. perh. alludes:

apud illas aedis sistendae mihi sunt sycophantiae,

the place about that house I must make the scene of my tricks, Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 25.—

Sistere monumenta, etc., or sistere alone, to erect statues, etc. (= statuere; post-class. and rare;

mostly in Tac.): ut apud Palatium effigies eorum sisteret,

Tac. A. 15, 72:

cum Augustus sibi templum sisti non prohibuisset,

id. ib. 4 37:

at Romae tropaea de Parthis arcusque sistebantur,

id. ib. 15, 18:

monuere ut... templum iisdem vestigiis sisteretur,

id. H. 4, 53:

sistere monumenta,

Aus. Ep. 24, 55: Ast ego te... Carthaginis arce Marmoreis sistam templis (cf. histanai tina), Sil. 8, 231; v. statuo.

Sistere = to cause what is tottering or loose to stand firm, to support or fasten; and neutr., to stand firm.

Causative (rare;

perh. not in class. prose) = stabilire: sucus... mobilis (dentes) sistit,

Plin. 20, 3, 8, § 15; and trop.: hic (Marcellus) rem Romanam magno turbante tumultu Sistet (cf.: respublica stat;

v. sto),

Verg. A. 6, 858; cf.:

non ita civitatem aegram esse, ut consuetis remediis sisti posset,

Liv. 3, 20, 8 (where sisti may be impers.; v. infra, III. C.).—

Neutr., to stand firm, to last, = stare:

nec mortale genus, nec divum corpora sancta Exiguom possent horai sistere tempus,

Lucr. 1, 1016: qui rem publicam sistere negat posse, nisi ad equestrem ordinem judicia referantur, Cotta ap. Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 96, § 223.—

Neutr., to stand firm, to resist:

nec quicquam Teucros Sustentare valet telis, aut sistere contra,

Verg. A. 11, 873; so with dat. = resistere:

donec Galba, inruenti turbae neque aetate neque corpore sistens, sella levaretur,

Tac. H. 1, 35; cf. sisti = resistere, III. B. 1. f. infra.

Sistere = to stand still, and to cause to stand still.

Neutr. = stare (rare; in Varr., Tac., and the poets).

To stand still:

solstitium dictum est quod sol eo die sistere videatur,

Varr. L. L. 5, p. 53 (Bip.):

sistunt amnes,

Verg. G. 1, 479:

incurrit, errat, sistit,

Sen. Herc. Oet. 248.—

To remain, stop:

Siste! Quo praeceps ruis?

Sen. Thyest. 77; id. Oedip. 1050:

vis tu quidem istum intra locum sistere?

will you remain in that position? Tac. A. 4, 40.—

Trop., to stop, not to go any farther:

depunge, ubi sistam,

Pers. 6, 79:

nec in Hectore tracto sistere,

to stop at the dragging of Hector, Stat. Achill. 1, 7.—

To cease (dub.):

hactenus sistat nefas' pius est,

if his crime ceases here, he will be pious, Sen. Thyest. 744 (perh. act., to stop, end).—

Causative (not ante-Aug.; freq. in Tac., Plin., and the poets).

To arrest, stop, check an advancing motion.

With gradum:

plano sistit uterque gradum,

arrest their steps, Prop. 5 (4), 10, 36; Verg. A. 6, 465:

siste properantem gradum,

Sen. Herc. Fur. 772:

repente sistunt gradum,

Curt. 4, 6, 14. —With pedem, Ov. R. Am. 80.—

With fugam, to stop, stay, check, stem, arrest the flight:

fugam foedam siste,

Liv. 1, 12, 5:

si periculo suo fugam sistere posset,

id. 30, 12, 1; so Curt. 8, 14, 37; 4, 16, 2; 8, 3, 2; Tac. A. 12, 39.—

Of vehicles, horses, etc.:

esseda siste,

Prop. 2, 1, 76:

equos,

Verg. A. 12, 355:

quadrijugos,

Stat. Achill. 2, 429; so id. Th. 5, 364.—

With iter, to arrest the advance of an army, to halt:

exercitus iter sistit,

Tac. H. 3, 50.—

With bellum, to halt (cf. infra, D.):

Aquilejae sisti bellum expectarique Mucianum jubebat,

Tac. H. 3, [p. 1712] 8.—

Of living objects, in gen.

To arrest their course, make them halt:

aegre coercitam legionem Bedriaci sistit,

Tac. H. 2, 23:

festinantia sistens Fata,

staying the hurrying Fates, Stat. S. 3, 4, 24.—So, se sistere with ab, to desist from:

non prius se ab effuso cursu sistunt,

Liv. 6, 29, 3; hence, to arrest by wounding, i. e. to wound or kill:

aliquem cuspide,

Sil. 1, 382; 1, 163; so,

cervum vulnere sistere,

id. 2, 78.—

To stop a hostile attack of persons, to resist them, ward them off:

ut non sisterent modo Sabinas legiones, sed in fugam averterent,

Liv. 1, 37, 3:

ibi integrae vires sistunt invehentem se jam Samnitem,

id. 10, 14, 18:

nec sisti vis hostium poterat,

Curt. 5, 3, 11:

nec sisti poterant scandentes,

Tac. H. 3, 71; 5, 21. —

Trop., to stop the advance of prices:

pretia augeri in dies, nec mediocribus remediis sisti posse,

Tac. A. 3, 52.—

To arrest the motion of fluids.

Of water:

sistere aquam fluviis,

Verg. A. 4, 489:

amnis, siste parumper aquas,

Ov. Am. 3, 6, 2:

quae concita flumina sistunt,

id. M. 7, 154:

sistito infestum mare,

calm, Sen. Agam. 523; cf. Ov. M. 7, 200; id. H. 6, 87; Plin. 28, 8, 29, § 118.—

Of blood and secretions:

(ea) quibus sistitur sanguis parari jubet,

Tac. A. 15, 54:

sanguinem,

Plin. 20, 7, 25, § 59; 28, 18, 73, § 239; 27, 4, 5, § 18:

haemorrhoidum abundantiam,

id. 27, 4, 5, § 19:

fluctiones,

id. 20, 8, 27, § 71, 34, 10, 23, § 105; 35, 17, 57, § 195:

nomas,

id. 30, 13, 39, § 116; 24, 16, 94, § 151:

mensis,

id. 23, 6, 60, § 112:

vomitiones,

id. 20, 20, 81, § 213:

alvum bubus,

id. 18, 16, 42, § 143:

alvum,

stop the bowels, id. 23, 6, 60, § 113; 22, 25, 59, § 126; 20, 5, 18, § 37:

ventrem,

id. 20, 23, 96, § 256; Mart. 13, 116.—

To arrest the motion of life, make rigid:

ille oculos sistit,

Stat. Th. 2, 539.—

To end, put an end to (= finem facere alicui rei); pass., to cease:

querelas,

Ov. M. 7, 711:

fletus,

id. ib. 14, 835:

lacrimas,

id. F. 1, 367; 480; 6, 154:

minas,

id. Tr. 1, 2, 60:

opus,

id. H. 16 (17), 266; id. M. 3, 153:

labores,

id. ib. 5, 490:

furorem,

Stat. Th. 5, 663:

furialem impetum,

Sen. Med. 157; id. Agam. 203:

pace tamen sisti bellum placet,

Ov. M. 14, 803:

antequam summa dies spectacula sistat,

id. F. 4, 387:

sitim sistere,

to allay, id. P. 3, 1, 18:

nec primo in limine sistit conatus scelerum,

suppresses, Stat. S. 5, 2, 86:

ruinas,

to stop destruction, Plin. Pan. 50, 4:

ventum,

to ward off, turn the wind, id. Ep. 2, 17, 17;

(motus terrae) non ante quadraginta dies sistuntur, = desinunt,

Plin. 2, 82, 84, § 198.—

Sistere with intra = to confine, keep within:

transgresso jam Alpes Caecina, quem sisti intra Gallias posse speraverant,

Tac. H. 2, 11:

dum populatio lucem intra sisteretur,

provided the raids were confined to day-time, id. A. 4, 48. —

Impers. and trop., to arrest or avoid an impending misfortune, or to stand, i. e. to endure; generally in the form sisti non potest (more rarely: sisti potest) = it cannot be endured, a disaster cannot be avoided or met (once in Plaut.; freq. in Liv.; sometimes in Tac.; cf., in gen., Brix ad Plaut. Trin. 720; Drak. ad Liv. 3, 16, 4; Weissenb. ad Liv. 2, 29, 8; Gronov. ad Liv. 4, 12, 6; Beneke ad Just. 11, 1, 6).

Without a subject, res or a noun of general import being understood:

quid ego nunc agam, nisi ut clipeum ad dorsum accommodem, etc.? Non sisti potest,

it is intolerable, Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 94:

totam plebem aere alieno demersam esse, nec sisti posse nisi omnibus consulatur,

Liv. 2, 29, 8:

si domestica seditio adiciatur, sisti non posse,

the situation will be desperate, id. 45, 19, 3:

si quem similem priore anno dedissent, non potuisse sisti,

id. 3, 9, 8:

vixque concordiā sisti videbatur,

that the crisis could scarcely be met, even by harmonious action, id. 3, 16, 4:

qualicunque urbis statu, manente disciplinā militari sisti potuisse,

these evils were endurable, id. 2, 44, 10: exercitum gravi morbo affectari, nec sisti potuisse ni, etc., it would have ended in disaster, if not, etc., id. 29, 10, 1:

qui omnes populi si pariter deficiant, sisti nullo modo posse,

Just. 11, 1, 6 Gronov. ad loc.; cf. Liv. 3, 20, 8 supra, II. A. 1.— Rarely with a subject-clause understood: nec jam sisti poterat, and it was no longer tolerable, i. e. that Nero should disgrace himself, etc., Tac. A. 14, 14.—

Rarely with quin, to prevent etc. (pregn., implying also the stopping of something; cf.

supra, III. B. 1.): neque sisti potuit quin et palatium et domus et cuncta circum haurirentur (igni),

Tac. A. 15, 39.—Hence, stătus, a, um, P. a., as attribute of nouns, occurs in several conventional phrases, as relics of archaic usage.

Status (condictusve) dies cum hoste, in the XII. Tables, = a day of trial fixed by the judge or agreed upon with the adversary;

esp., a peregrinus (= hostis),

Cic. Off. 1, 12, 37. It presupposes a phrase, diem sistere, prob.=vadimonium sistere (v. supra, I. C. 2.). Such an appointment was an excuse from the most important public duties, even for soldiers from joining the army, Cinc. ap. Gell. 16, 4, 4.—

Hence, transf.: si status condictus cum hoste intercedit dies, tamen est eundum quo imperant,

i. e. under all circumstances we must go, Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 5.—

In certain phrases, appointed, fixed, regular (cf. statutus, with which it is often confounded in MSS.):

status dies: tres in anno statos dies habere quibus, etc.,

Liv. 39, 13, 8:

stato loco statisque diebus,

id. 42, 32, 2; so id. 5, 52, 2; 27, 23 fin.:

stato lustri die,

Sen. Troad. 781:

status sacrificii dies,

Flor. 1, 3, 16:

statum tempus, statā vice, etc.: lunae defectio statis temporibus fit,

Liv. 44, 37 init.; so id. 28, 6, 10:

stato tempore,

Tac. A. 12, 13; id. H. 4, 81; Plin. 11, 37, 65, § 173:

stata tempora (partus),

Stat. Achill. 2, 673:

adeo in illā plagā mundus statas vices temporum mutat,

Curt. 8, 19, 13; so id. 9, 9, 9; 5, 1, 23; so, feriae, etc.: feriae statae appellabantur quod certo statutoque die observarentur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 69 Lind.:

stata quinquennia,

Stat. S. 5, 3, 113:

stata sacra or sacrificia: stata sacrificia sunt quae certis diebus fieri debent,

Fest. p. 264 Lind.:

proficiscuntur Aeniam ad statum sacrificium,

Liv. 40, 4, 9; 23, 35, 3; 5, 46, 2; 39, 13, 8; Cic. Mil. 17, 45:

solemne et statum sacrificium (al. statutum),

id. Tusc. 1, 47, 113; so Liv. 23, 35, 3:

stata sacra,

Ov. F. 2, 528; Stat. Th. 1, 666:

stata foedera,

id. ib. 11, 380:

status flatus,

Sen. Ben. 4, 28:

stati cursus siderum,

Plin. 18, 29, 69, § 291 (different: statae stellae = fixed stars, Censor. D. N. 8, belonging to II. 2. supra): statae febres, intermittent fevers, returning regularly, Plin. 28, 27, 28, § 107.—

Moderate, average, normal:

inter enim pulcherrimam feminam et deformissimam media forma quaedam est, quae et a nimio pulcritudinis periculo et a summo deformitatis odio vacat, qualis a Q. Ennio perquam eleganti vocabulo stata dicitur...Ennius autem eas fere feminas ait incolumi pudicitia esse quae statā formā forent,

Gell. 5, 11, 12 -14 (v. Enn. Trag. p. 133 Vahl.).

impingo ( inp-), pēgi, pactum, 3 (archaic inf. pres. pass. impingier, Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 76), v. a. [in-pango], to push, strike, or drive at or into any thing; to thrust, strike, or dash against (not freq. till after the Aug. per.; cf.: incutio, infligo, illido).

Lit.:

pugnum in os impinge,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 5:

mustriculam in dentes, Afran. ap. Fest. s. v. mustricula, p. 148 Müll.: a paucioribus Othonianis quo minus in vallum impingerentur,

would have been driven to, Tac. H. 2, 41:

impactus in carcerem,

Dig. 48, 3, 13; so, to forge on, fix or fasten on:

jubete huic crassas compedes impingier,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 76; id. Pers. 4, 4, 24; cf.: fustem alicui, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 9:

lapidem Aesopo,

Phaedr. 3, 5, 7:

laqueum alicui, Sen. Tranq. an. 10: caput parieti,

Plin. Ep. 3, 16, 12:

dentes arbori,

Plin. 8, 3, 4, § 8:

aequor scopulis,

Sil. 12, 187:

agmina muris,

Verg. A. 5, 805; Stat. Th. 7, 28:

impinge pugnum, si muttiverit,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 7, 2:

pessimus gubernator, qui navem, dum portum egreditur, impegit,

Quint. 4, 1, 61:

clitellas ferus impingas,

Hor. Ep. 1, 13, 8:

nubes vehementer impactae,

Sen. Q. N. 2, 12: impingere se in columnas, to dash one ' s self against, id. de Ira, 1, 19, 4:

cum caede magna (hostem) in aciem altiore superstantem tumulo inpegere,

Liv. 27, 18, 14.—

Prov.: calcem impingere alicui rei,

i. e. to give it a kick, to cast it aside, Petr. 46; v. calx. —

In gen., to hand, press upon, force upon one (rare):

huic calix mulsi impingendus est, ut plorare desinat,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 19, 44:

alicui epistulam,

id. Att. 6, 1, 6; Sen. Ep. 95:

oculum libidinose,

to cast upon, direct to, Tert. Idol. 2.—

Trop., to drive, throw upon, push or force to any thing:

illum libido in contraria impinget,

Sen. Ep. 95 med.:

aliquem in litem ac molestiam,

id. ib. 117: dicam tibi impingam grandem, I will direct or bring against you, Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 92:

naturae munus suum,

to throw in her face, Sen. Prov. 6 fin.:

egestas Catilinam patriae suae impegit,

drove, incited him against, Flor. 3, 12, 12:

quod populos scelerata impegit in arma,

Luc. 6, 406:

beneficium,

Sen. Ben. 1, 1: quocumque visum est, libido se impingit, id. de Ira, 2, 8.

impingo ( inp-), pēgi, pactum, 3 (archaic inf. pres. pass. impingier, Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 76), v. a. [in-pango], to push, strike, or drive at or into any thing; to thrust, strike, or dash against (not freq. till after the Aug. per.; cf.: incutio, infligo, illido).

Lit.:

pugnum in os impinge,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 5:

mustriculam in dentes, Afran. ap. Fest. s. v. mustricula, p. 148 Müll.: a paucioribus Othonianis quo minus in vallum impingerentur,

would have been driven to, Tac. H. 2, 41:

impactus in carcerem,

Dig. 48, 3, 13; so, to forge on, fix or fasten on:

jubete huic crassas compedes impingier,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 76; id. Pers. 4, 4, 24; cf.: fustem alicui, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 9:

lapidem Aesopo,

Phaedr. 3, 5, 7:

laqueum alicui, Sen. Tranq. an. 10: caput parieti,

Plin. Ep. 3, 16, 12:

dentes arbori,

Plin. 8, 3, 4, § 8:

aequor scopulis,

Sil. 12, 187:

agmina muris,

Verg. A. 5, 805; Stat. Th. 7, 28:

impinge pugnum, si muttiverit,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 7, 2:

pessimus gubernator, qui navem, dum portum egreditur, impegit,

Quint. 4, 1, 61:

clitellas ferus impingas,

Hor. Ep. 1, 13, 8:

nubes vehementer impactae,

Sen. Q. N. 2, 12: impingere se in columnas, to dash one ' s self against, id. de Ira, 1, 19, 4:

cum caede magna (hostem) in aciem altiore superstantem tumulo inpegere,

Liv. 27, 18, 14.—

Prov.: calcem impingere alicui rei,

i. e. to give it a kick, to cast it aside, Petr. 46; v. calx. —

In gen., to hand, press upon, force upon one (rare):

huic calix mulsi impingendus est, ut plorare desinat,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 19, 44:

alicui epistulam,

id. Att. 6, 1, 6; Sen. Ep. 95:

oculum libidinose,

to cast upon, direct to, Tert. Idol. 2.—

Trop., to drive, throw upon, push or force to any thing:

illum libido in contraria impinget,

Sen. Ep. 95 med.:

aliquem in litem ac molestiam,

id. ib. 117: dicam tibi impingam grandem, I will direct or bring against you, Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 92:

naturae munus suum,

to throw in her face, Sen. Prov. 6 fin.:

egestas Catilinam patriae suae impegit,

drove, incited him against, Flor. 3, 12, 12:

quod populos scelerata impegit in arma,

Luc. 6, 406:

beneficium,

Sen. Ben. 1, 1: quocumque visum est, libido se impingit, id. de Ira, 2, 8.

com-prĕhendo ( conp-; also com-prendo, very freq. in MSS. and edd.; cf. Quint. 1, 5, 21. In MSS. also comprae-hendo and compraendo, v. prehendo), di, sum, 3, v. a., to lay hold of something on all sides; to take or catch hold of, seize, grasp, apprehend; to comprehend, comprise (class. in prose and poetry).

Prop.

In gen.:

quid (opus est) manibus, si nihil comprehendendum est?

Cic. N. D. 1, 33, 92:

(vulva) non multo major quam ut manu comprehendatur,

Cels. 4, 1 fin.:

cum (forfex) dentem comprehendere non possit,

id. 7, 12, 1:

mordicus manum eorum (elephantorum),

Plin. 9, 15, 17, § 46:

morsu guttura,

Luc. 4, 727:

nuces modio,

Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 3:

naves,

to join one to another, fasten together, Liv. 30, 10, 5; cf.:

oras vulneris suturae comprehendunt,

Cels. 7, 4, 3:

comprehendunt utrumque et orant,

Caes. B. G. 5, 31:

ter frustra comprensa manus effugit imago,

Verg. A. 2, 794; cf.

aures,

Tib. 2, 5, 92:

nisi quae validissima (ovis), non comprehendatur (sc. stabulis) hieme,

let none but the strongest be kept in the winter, Col. 7, 3, 15 Schneid.:

naves in flumine Vulturno comprehensae,

assembled together, put under an embargo, Liv. 26, 7, 9; so id. 29, 24, 9; Suet. Tib. 38; id. Calig. 39:

ignem,

to take, catch, Caes. B. G. 5, 43;

and in a reverse constr.: ignis robora comprendit,

Verg. G. 2, 305; cf.:

opera flammā comprehensa,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 43; and:

avidis comprenditur ignibus agger,

Ov. M. 9, 234:

loca vallo,

Front. 2, 11, 7; and absol.:

comprehensa aedificia,

Liv. 26, 27, 3.—

In partic.

To attack, seize upon in a hostile manner, to seize, lay hold of, arrest, catch, apprehend:

aliquem pro moecho Comprehendere et constringere,

Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 23; 5, 1, 20:

tam capitalem hostem,

Cic. Cat. 2, 2, 3:

hominem,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 4, § 14:

nefarios duces,

id. Cat. 3, 7, 16:

Virginium,

Liv. 3, 48, 6; cf. id. 1, 41, 1:

praesidium Punicum,

id. 26, 14, 7:

hunc comprehenderant atque in vincula conjecerant,

Caes. B. G. 4, 27; 5, 25:

in fugā,

id. ib. 5, 21.—Rarely of disease:

comprehensus morbo,

Just. 23, 2, 4; cf.:

comprehensi pestiferā lue,

id. 32, 3, 9.—Of places, to occupy, seize upon:

aliis comprehensis collibus munitiones perfecerunt,

Caes. B. C. 3, 46 fin. —

Of things, to intercept' -epistulas, Just. 20, 5, 12.—

To seize upon one, to apprehend him in any crime:

fures,

Cat. 62, 35.—With inf.: qui interesse concentibus interdictis fuerint comprehensi, Cod. Th. 16, 4, 5.—Hence,

Transf. to the crime:

nefandum adulterium,

to discover, detect it, Cic. Mil. 27, 72:

res ejus indicio,

id. Clu. 16, 47.—

Of plants, to take root; of a graft:

cum comprehendit (surculus),

Varr. R. R. 1, 40 fin.; so,

in gen.,

Col. 3, 5, 1; 5, 6, 18; Pall. Jan. 13, 5.—

Of women, to conceive, become pregnant, = concipere:

si mulier non comprehendit, etc.,

Cels. 5, 21 fin. —

Of a space, to contain, comprise, comprehend, include:

ut nuces integras, quas uno modio comprehendere possis,

Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 3:

circuitus ejus triginta et duo stadia comprehendit,

Curt. 6, 6, 24. —

In late medic. lang., of medicines, to combine:

aliquid melle,

Veg. Art. Vet. 6, 27, 1; Scrib. Comp. 88; 227 al.—

Of the range of a missile:

quantum impulsa valet comprehendere lancea nodo,

Sil. 4, 102.—

Of the reach of a surgical instrument:

si vitium in angusto est, quod comprehendere modiolus possit,

Cels. 8, 3 init. —

Trop.

To comprehend by the sense of sight, to perceive, observe, see (very rare):

aliquid visu,

Sil. 3, 408;

and without visu: comprehendere vix litterarum apices,

Gell. 13, 30, 10.—

To comprehend something intellectually, to receive into one's mind, to grasp, perceive, comprehend; with abl.: si quam opinionem jam mentibus vestris comprehendistis: si eam ratio convellet, si oratio labefactabit, etc., if any opinion has already taken root in your mind (the figure taken from the rooting of plants; v. supra, I. B. 3.), Cic. Clu. 2, 6:

omnes animo virtutes,

id. Balb. 1, 3; id. N. D. 3, 25, 64:

animo haec tenemus comprehensa, non sensibus,

id. Ac. 2, 7, 21 sq.:

omnia animis et cogitatione,

id. Fl. 27, 66; cf. id. de Or. 2, 31, 136:

aliquid mente,

id. N. D. 3, 8, 21:

aliquid memoriā,

id. Tusc. 5, 41, 121:

qualis animus sit vacans corpore, intellegere et cogitatione comprehendere,

id. ib. 1, 22, 50:

aliquid certis signis,

Col. 6, 24, 3:

aliquid experimentis assiduis,

Pall. 2, 13, 8.—Without abl.:

esse aliquid, quod conprehendi et percipi posset,

Cic. Ac. 2, 6, 17; 2, 6, 18:

virtutum cognitio confirmat percipi et conprehendi multa posse,

id. ib. 2, 8, 23; 1, 11, 42.—

To comprehend or include in words; to comprise in discourse or in writing, to express, describe, recount, narrate, etc.:

breviter paucis comprendere multa,

Lucr. 6, 1082; cf.:

breviter comprehensa sententia,

Cic. Fin. 2, 7, 20; Quint. 9, 3, 91:

comprehendam brevi,

Cic. de Or. 1, 8, 34:

perinde ac si in hanc formulam omnia judicia conclusa et comprehensa sint,

id. Rosc. Com. 5, 15:

(Cato) verbis luculentioribus et pluribus rem eandem comprehenderat,

id. Att. 12, 21, 1:

ipsa natura circumscriptione quādam verborum comprehendit concluditque sententiam,

id. Brut. 8, 34:

in eā (terrā) enim et lapis et harena et cetera ejus generis sunt in nominando comprehensa,

Varr. R. R. 1, 9, 1:

emplastra quoque, quae supra comprehensa sunt,

Cels. 5, 27, 3; so absol.:

ad veterum rerum nostrarum memoriam comprehendendam impulsi sumus,

Cic. Brut. 5, 19:

aliquid dictis,

Ov. M. 13, 160:

quae si comprendere coner,

id. Tr. 5, 2, 27. —

Poet.: aliquid numero, to number, enumerate:

neque enim numero comprendere refert,

Verg. G. 2, 104; Ov. A. A. 2, 447; cf.:

numerum quorum comprendere non est,

id. Tr. 5, 11, 19.—

To comprehend any one in affection, to bind to one's self, to put under obligation, to embrace with kindness (rare;

mostly in Cic.): multos amicitiā, tueri obsequio, etc.,

to have many friends, Cic. Cael. 6, 13:

adulescentem humanitate tuā,

id. Fam. 13, 15, 3:

quod omnibus officiis per se, per patrem, per majores suos totam Atinatem praefecturam comprehenderit,

id. Planc. 19. 47.—

To shut in, include (late Lat.):

spiritum in effigiem,

Lact. 4, 8, 9:

elementorum figurae humanā specie comprehensae,

id. 2, 6, 1.

com-prĕhendo ( conp-; also com-prendo, very freq. in MSS. and edd.; cf. Quint. 1, 5, 21. In MSS. also comprae-hendo and compraendo, v. prehendo), di, sum, 3, v. a., to lay hold of something on all sides; to take or catch hold of, seize, grasp, apprehend; to comprehend, comprise (class. in prose and poetry).

Prop.

In gen.:

quid (opus est) manibus, si nihil comprehendendum est?

Cic. N. D. 1, 33, 92:

(vulva) non multo major quam ut manu comprehendatur,

Cels. 4, 1 fin.:

cum (forfex) dentem comprehendere non possit,

id. 7, 12, 1:

mordicus manum eorum (elephantorum),

Plin. 9, 15, 17, § 46:

morsu guttura,

Luc. 4, 727:

nuces modio,

Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 3:

naves,

to join one to another, fasten together, Liv. 30, 10, 5; cf.:

oras vulneris suturae comprehendunt,

Cels. 7, 4, 3:

comprehendunt utrumque et orant,

Caes. B. G. 5, 31:

ter frustra comprensa manus effugit imago,

Verg. A. 2, 794; cf.

aures,

Tib. 2, 5, 92:

nisi quae validissima (ovis), non comprehendatur (sc. stabulis) hieme,

let none but the strongest be kept in the winter, Col. 7, 3, 15 Schneid.:

naves in flumine Vulturno comprehensae,

assembled together, put under an embargo, Liv. 26, 7, 9; so id. 29, 24, 9; Suet. Tib. 38; id. Calig. 39:

ignem,

to take, catch, Caes. B. G. 5, 43;

and in a reverse constr.: ignis robora comprendit,

Verg. G. 2, 305; cf.:

opera flammā comprehensa,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 43; and:

avidis comprenditur ignibus agger,

Ov. M. 9, 234:

loca vallo,

Front. 2, 11, 7; and absol.:

comprehensa aedificia,

Liv. 26, 27, 3.—

In partic.

To attack, seize upon in a hostile manner, to seize, lay hold of, arrest, catch, apprehend:

aliquem pro moecho Comprehendere et constringere,

Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 23; 5, 1, 20:

tam capitalem hostem,

Cic. Cat. 2, 2, 3:

hominem,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 4, § 14:

nefarios duces,

id. Cat. 3, 7, 16:

Virginium,

Liv. 3, 48, 6; cf. id. 1, 41, 1:

praesidium Punicum,

id. 26, 14, 7:

hunc comprehenderant atque in vincula conjecerant,

Caes. B. G. 4, 27; 5, 25:

in fugā,

id. ib. 5, 21.—Rarely of disease:

comprehensus morbo,

Just. 23, 2, 4; cf.:

comprehensi pestiferā lue,

id. 32, 3, 9.—Of places, to occupy, seize upon:

aliis comprehensis collibus munitiones perfecerunt,

Caes. B. C. 3, 46 fin. —

Of things, to intercept' -epistulas, Just. 20, 5, 12.—

To seize upon one, to apprehend him in any crime:

fures,

Cat. 62, 35.—With inf.: qui interesse concentibus interdictis fuerint comprehensi, Cod. Th. 16, 4, 5.—Hence,

Transf. to the crime:

nefandum adulterium,

to discover, detect it, Cic. Mil. 27, 72:

res ejus indicio,

id. Clu. 16, 47.—

Of plants, to take root; of a graft:

cum comprehendit (surculus),

Varr. R. R. 1, 40 fin.; so,

in gen.,

Col. 3, 5, 1; 5, 6, 18; Pall. Jan. 13, 5.—

Of women, to conceive, become pregnant, = concipere:

si mulier non comprehendit, etc.,

Cels. 5, 21 fin. —

Of a space, to contain, comprise, comprehend, include:

ut nuces integras, quas uno modio comprehendere possis,

Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 3:

circuitus ejus triginta et duo stadia comprehendit,

Curt. 6, 6, 24. —

In late medic. lang., of medicines, to combine:

aliquid melle,

Veg. Art. Vet. 6, 27, 1; Scrib. Comp. 88; 227 al.—

Of the range of a missile:

quantum impulsa valet comprehendere lancea nodo,

Sil. 4, 102.—

Of the reach of a surgical instrument:

si vitium in angusto est, quod comprehendere modiolus possit,

Cels. 8, 3 init. —

Trop.

To comprehend by the sense of sight, to perceive, observe, see (very rare):

aliquid visu,

Sil. 3, 408;

and without visu: comprehendere vix litterarum apices,

Gell. 13, 30, 10.—

To comprehend something intellectually, to receive into one's mind, to grasp, perceive, comprehend; with abl.: si quam opinionem jam mentibus vestris comprehendistis: si eam ratio convellet, si oratio labefactabit, etc., if any opinion has already taken root in your mind (the figure taken from the rooting of plants; v. supra, I. B. 3.), Cic. Clu. 2, 6:

omnes animo virtutes,

id. Balb. 1, 3; id. N. D. 3, 25, 64:

animo haec tenemus comprehensa, non sensibus,

id. Ac. 2, 7, 21 sq.:

omnia animis et cogitatione,

id. Fl. 27, 66; cf. id. de Or. 2, 31, 136:

aliquid mente,

id. N. D. 3, 8, 21:

aliquid memoriā,

id. Tusc. 5, 41, 121:

qualis animus sit vacans corpore, intellegere et cogitatione comprehendere,

id. ib. 1, 22, 50:

aliquid certis signis,

Col. 6, 24, 3:

aliquid experimentis assiduis,

Pall. 2, 13, 8.—Without abl.:

esse aliquid, quod conprehendi et percipi posset,

Cic. Ac. 2, 6, 17; 2, 6, 18:

virtutum cognitio confirmat percipi et conprehendi multa posse,

id. ib. 2, 8, 23; 1, 11, 42.—

To comprehend or include in words; to comprise in discourse or in writing, to express, describe, recount, narrate, etc.:

breviter paucis comprendere multa,

Lucr. 6, 1082; cf.:

breviter comprehensa sententia,

Cic. Fin. 2, 7, 20; Quint. 9, 3, 91:

comprehendam brevi,

Cic. de Or. 1, 8, 34:

perinde ac si in hanc formulam omnia judicia conclusa et comprehensa sint,

id. Rosc. Com. 5, 15:

(Cato) verbis luculentioribus et pluribus rem eandem comprehenderat,

id. Att. 12, 21, 1:

ipsa natura circumscriptione quādam verborum comprehendit concluditque sententiam,

id. Brut. 8, 34:

in eā (terrā) enim et lapis et harena et cetera ejus generis sunt in nominando comprehensa,

Varr. R. R. 1, 9, 1:

emplastra quoque, quae supra comprehensa sunt,

Cels. 5, 27, 3; so absol.:

ad veterum rerum nostrarum memoriam comprehendendam impulsi sumus,

Cic. Brut. 5, 19:

aliquid dictis,

Ov. M. 13, 160:

quae si comprendere coner,

id. Tr. 5, 2, 27. —

Poet.: aliquid numero, to number, enumerate:

neque enim numero comprendere refert,

Verg. G. 2, 104; Ov. A. A. 2, 447; cf.:

numerum quorum comprendere non est,

id. Tr. 5, 11, 19.—

To comprehend any one in affection, to bind to one's self, to put under obligation, to embrace with kindness (rare;

mostly in Cic.): multos amicitiā, tueri obsequio, etc.,

to have many friends, Cic. Cael. 6, 13:

adulescentem humanitate tuā,

id. Fam. 13, 15, 3:

quod omnibus officiis per se, per patrem, per majores suos totam Atinatem praefecturam comprehenderit,

id. Planc. 19. 47.—

To shut in, include (late Lat.):

spiritum in effigiem,

Lact. 4, 8, 9:

elementorum figurae humanā specie comprehensae,

id. 2, 6, 1.

com-prĕhendo ( conp-; also com-prendo, very freq. in MSS. and edd.; cf. Quint. 1, 5, 21. In MSS. also comprae-hendo and compraendo, v. prehendo), di, sum, 3, v. a., to lay hold of something on all sides; to take or catch hold of, seize, grasp, apprehend; to comprehend, comprise (class. in prose and poetry).

Prop.

In gen.:

quid (opus est) manibus, si nihil comprehendendum est?

Cic. N. D. 1, 33, 92:

(vulva) non multo major quam ut manu comprehendatur,

Cels. 4, 1 fin.:

cum (forfex) dentem comprehendere non possit,

id. 7, 12, 1:

mordicus manum eorum (elephantorum),

Plin. 9, 15, 17, § 46:

morsu guttura,

Luc. 4, 727:

nuces modio,

Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 3:

naves,

to join one to another, fasten together, Liv. 30, 10, 5; cf.:

oras vulneris suturae comprehendunt,

Cels. 7, 4, 3:

comprehendunt utrumque et orant,

Caes. B. G. 5, 31:

ter frustra comprensa manus effugit imago,

Verg. A. 2, 794; cf.

aures,

Tib. 2, 5, 92:

nisi quae validissima (ovis), non comprehendatur (sc. stabulis) hieme,

let none but the strongest be kept in the winter, Col. 7, 3, 15 Schneid.:

naves in flumine Vulturno comprehensae,

assembled together, put under an embargo, Liv. 26, 7, 9; so id. 29, 24, 9; Suet. Tib. 38; id. Calig. 39:

ignem,

to take, catch, Caes. B. G. 5, 43;

and in a reverse constr.: ignis robora comprendit,

Verg. G. 2, 305; cf.:

opera flammā comprehensa,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 43; and:

avidis comprenditur ignibus agger,

Ov. M. 9, 234:

loca vallo,

Front. 2, 11, 7; and absol.:

comprehensa aedificia,

Liv. 26, 27, 3.—

In partic.

To attack, seize upon in a hostile manner, to seize, lay hold of, arrest, catch, apprehend:

aliquem pro moecho Comprehendere et constringere,

Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 23; 5, 1, 20:

tam capitalem hostem,

Cic. Cat. 2, 2, 3:

hominem,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 4, § 14:

nefarios duces,

id. Cat. 3, 7, 16:

Virginium,

Liv. 3, 48, 6; cf. id. 1, 41, 1:

praesidium Punicum,

id. 26, 14, 7:

hunc comprehenderant atque in vincula conjecerant,

Caes. B. G. 4, 27; 5, 25:

in fugā,

id. ib. 5, 21.—Rarely of disease:

comprehensus morbo,

Just. 23, 2, 4; cf.:

comprehensi pestiferā lue,

id. 32, 3, 9.—Of places, to occupy, seize upon:

aliis comprehensis collibus munitiones perfecerunt,

Caes. B. C. 3, 46 fin. —

Of things, to intercept' -epistulas, Just. 20, 5, 12.—

To seize upon one, to apprehend him in any crime:

fures,

Cat. 62, 35.—With inf.: qui interesse concentibus interdictis fuerint comprehensi, Cod. Th. 16, 4, 5.—Hence,

Transf. to the crime:

nefandum adulterium,

to discover, detect it, Cic. Mil. 27, 72:

res ejus indicio,

id. Clu. 16, 47.—

Of plants, to take root; of a graft:

cum comprehendit (surculus),

Varr. R. R. 1, 40 fin.; so,

in gen.,

Col. 3, 5, 1; 5, 6, 18; Pall. Jan. 13, 5.—

Of women, to conceive, become pregnant, = concipere:

si mulier non comprehendit, etc.,

Cels. 5, 21 fin. —

Of a space, to contain, comprise, comprehend, include:

ut nuces integras, quas uno modio comprehendere possis,

Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 3:

circuitus ejus triginta et duo stadia comprehendit,

Curt. 6, 6, 24. —

In late medic. lang., of medicines, to combine:

aliquid melle,

Veg. Art. Vet. 6, 27, 1; Scrib. Comp. 88; 227 al.—

Of the range of a missile:

quantum impulsa valet comprehendere lancea nodo,

Sil. 4, 102.—

Of the reach of a surgical instrument:

si vitium in angusto est, quod comprehendere modiolus possit,

Cels. 8, 3 init. —

Trop.

To comprehend by the sense of sight, to perceive, observe, see (very rare):

aliquid visu,

Sil. 3, 408;

and without visu: comprehendere vix litterarum apices,

Gell. 13, 30, 10.—

To comprehend something intellectually, to receive into one's mind, to grasp, perceive, comprehend; with abl.: si quam opinionem jam mentibus vestris comprehendistis: si eam ratio convellet, si oratio labefactabit, etc., if any opinion has already taken root in your mind (the figure taken from the rooting of plants; v. supra, I. B. 3.), Cic. Clu. 2, 6:

omnes animo virtutes,

id. Balb. 1, 3; id. N. D. 3, 25, 64:

animo haec tenemus comprehensa, non sensibus,

id. Ac. 2, 7, 21 sq.:

omnia animis et cogitatione,

id. Fl. 27, 66; cf. id. de Or. 2, 31, 136:

aliquid mente,

id. N. D. 3, 8, 21:

aliquid memoriā,

id. Tusc. 5, 41, 121:

qualis animus sit vacans corpore, intellegere et cogitatione comprehendere,

id. ib. 1, 22, 50:

aliquid certis signis,

Col. 6, 24, 3:

aliquid experimentis assiduis,

Pall. 2, 13, 8.—Without abl.:

esse aliquid, quod conprehendi et percipi posset,

Cic. Ac. 2, 6, 17; 2, 6, 18:

virtutum cognitio confirmat percipi et conprehendi multa posse,

id. ib. 2, 8, 23; 1, 11, 42.—

To comprehend or include in words; to comprise in discourse or in writing, to express, describe, recount, narrate, etc.:

breviter paucis comprendere multa,

Lucr. 6, 1082; cf.:

breviter comprehensa sententia,

Cic. Fin. 2, 7, 20; Quint. 9, 3, 91:

comprehendam brevi,

Cic. de Or. 1, 8, 34:

perinde ac si in hanc formulam omnia judicia conclusa et comprehensa sint,

id. Rosc. Com. 5, 15:

(Cato) verbis luculentioribus et pluribus rem eandem comprehenderat,

id. Att. 12, 21, 1:

ipsa natura circumscriptione quādam verborum comprehendit concluditque sententiam,

id. Brut. 8, 34:

in eā (terrā) enim et lapis et harena et cetera ejus generis sunt in nominando comprehensa,

Varr. R. R. 1, 9, 1:

emplastra quoque, quae supra comprehensa sunt,

Cels. 5, 27, 3; so absol.:

ad veterum rerum nostrarum memoriam comprehendendam impulsi sumus,

Cic. Brut. 5, 19:

aliquid dictis,

Ov. M. 13, 160:

quae si comprendere coner,

id. Tr. 5, 2, 27. —

Poet.: aliquid numero, to number, enumerate:

neque enim numero comprendere refert,

Verg. G. 2, 104; Ov. A. A. 2, 447; cf.:

numerum quorum comprendere non est,

id. Tr. 5, 11, 19.—

To comprehend any one in affection, to bind to one's self, to put under obligation, to embrace with kindness (rare;

mostly in Cic.): multos amicitiā, tueri obsequio, etc.,

to have many friends, Cic. Cael. 6, 13:

adulescentem humanitate tuā,

id. Fam. 13, 15, 3:

quod omnibus officiis per se, per patrem, per majores suos totam Atinatem praefecturam comprehenderit,

id. Planc. 19. 47.—

To shut in, include (late Lat.):

spiritum in effigiem,

Lact. 4, 8, 9:

elementorum figurae humanā specie comprehensae,

id. 2, 6, 1.

com-prĕhendo ( conp-; also com-prendo, very freq. in MSS. and edd.; cf. Quint. 1, 5, 21. In MSS. also comprae-hendo and compraendo, v. prehendo), di, sum, 3, v. a., to lay hold of something on all sides; to take or catch hold of, seize, grasp, apprehend; to comprehend, comprise (class. in prose and poetry).

Prop.

In gen.:

quid (opus est) manibus, si nihil comprehendendum est?

Cic. N. D. 1, 33, 92:

(vulva) non multo major quam ut manu comprehendatur,

Cels. 4, 1 fin.:

cum (forfex) dentem comprehendere non possit,

id. 7, 12, 1:

mordicus manum eorum (elephantorum),

Plin. 9, 15, 17, § 46:

morsu guttura,

Luc. 4, 727:

nuces modio,

Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 3:

naves,

to join one to another, fasten together, Liv. 30, 10, 5; cf.:

oras vulneris suturae comprehendunt,

Cels. 7, 4, 3:

comprehendunt utrumque et orant,

Caes. B. G. 5, 31:

ter frustra comprensa manus effugit imago,

Verg. A. 2, 794; cf.

aures,

Tib. 2, 5, 92:

nisi quae validissima (ovis), non comprehendatur (sc. stabulis) hieme,

let none but the strongest be kept in the winter, Col. 7, 3, 15 Schneid.:

naves in flumine Vulturno comprehensae,

assembled together, put under an embargo, Liv. 26, 7, 9; so id. 29, 24, 9; Suet. Tib. 38; id. Calig. 39:

ignem,

to take, catch, Caes. B. G. 5, 43;

and in a reverse constr.: ignis robora comprendit,

Verg. G. 2, 305; cf.:

opera flammā comprehensa,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 43; and:

avidis comprenditur ignibus agger,

Ov. M. 9, 234:

loca vallo,

Front. 2, 11, 7; and absol.:

comprehensa aedificia,

Liv. 26, 27, 3.—

In partic.

To attack, seize upon in a hostile manner, to seize, lay hold of, arrest, catch, apprehend:

aliquem pro moecho Comprehendere et constringere,

Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 23; 5, 1, 20:

tam capitalem hostem,

Cic. Cat. 2, 2, 3:

hominem,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 4, § 14:

nefarios duces,

id. Cat. 3, 7, 16:

Virginium,

Liv. 3, 48, 6; cf. id. 1, 41, 1:

praesidium Punicum,

id. 26, 14, 7:

hunc comprehenderant atque in vincula conjecerant,

Caes. B. G. 4, 27; 5, 25:

in fugā,

id. ib. 5, 21.—Rarely of disease:

comprehensus morbo,

Just. 23, 2, 4; cf.:

comprehensi pestiferā lue,

id. 32, 3, 9.—Of places, to occupy, seize upon:

aliis comprehensis collibus munitiones perfecerunt,

Caes. B. C. 3, 46 fin. —

Of things, to intercept' -epistulas, Just. 20, 5, 12.—

To seize upon one, to apprehend him in any crime:

fures,

Cat. 62, 35.—With inf.: qui interesse concentibus interdictis fuerint comprehensi, Cod. Th. 16, 4, 5.—Hence,

Transf. to the crime:

nefandum adulterium,

to discover, detect it, Cic. Mil. 27, 72:

res ejus indicio,

id. Clu. 16, 47.—

Of plants, to take root; of a graft:

cum comprehendit (surculus),

Varr. R. R. 1, 40 fin.; so,

in gen.,

Col. 3, 5, 1; 5, 6, 18; Pall. Jan. 13, 5.—

Of women, to conceive, become pregnant, = concipere:

si mulier non comprehendit, etc.,

Cels. 5, 21 fin. —

Of a space, to contain, comprise, comprehend, include:

ut nuces integras, quas uno modio comprehendere possis,

Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 3:

circuitus ejus triginta et duo stadia comprehendit,

Curt. 6, 6, 24. —

In late medic. lang., of medicines, to combine:

aliquid melle,

Veg. Art. Vet. 6, 27, 1; Scrib. Comp. 88; 227 al.—

Of the range of a missile:

quantum impulsa valet comprehendere lancea nodo,

Sil. 4, 102.—

Of the reach of a surgical instrument:

si vitium in angusto est, quod comprehendere modiolus possit,

Cels. 8, 3 init. —

Trop.

To comprehend by the sense of sight, to perceive, observe, see (very rare):

aliquid visu,

Sil. 3, 408;

and without visu: comprehendere vix litterarum apices,

Gell. 13, 30, 10.—

To comprehend something intellectually, to receive into one's mind, to grasp, perceive, comprehend; with abl.: si quam opinionem jam mentibus vestris comprehendistis: si eam ratio convellet, si oratio labefactabit, etc., if any opinion has already taken root in your mind (the figure taken from the rooting of plants; v. supra, I. B. 3.), Cic. Clu. 2, 6:

omnes animo virtutes,

id. Balb. 1, 3; id. N. D. 3, 25, 64:

animo haec tenemus comprehensa, non sensibus,

id. Ac. 2, 7, 21 sq.:

omnia animis et cogitatione,

id. Fl. 27, 66; cf. id. de Or. 2, 31, 136:

aliquid mente,

id. N. D. 3, 8, 21:

aliquid memoriā,

id. Tusc. 5, 41, 121:

qualis animus sit vacans corpore, intellegere et cogitatione comprehendere,

id. ib. 1, 22, 50:

aliquid certis signis,

Col. 6, 24, 3:

aliquid experimentis assiduis,

Pall. 2, 13, 8.—Without abl.:

esse aliquid, quod conprehendi et percipi posset,

Cic. Ac. 2, 6, 17; 2, 6, 18:

virtutum cognitio confirmat percipi et conprehendi multa posse,

id. ib. 2, 8, 23; 1, 11, 42.—

To comprehend or include in words; to comprise in discourse or in writing, to express, describe, recount, narrate, etc.:

breviter paucis comprendere multa,

Lucr. 6, 1082; cf.:

breviter comprehensa sententia,

Cic. Fin. 2, 7, 20; Quint. 9, 3, 91:

comprehendam brevi,

Cic. de Or. 1, 8, 34:

perinde ac si in hanc formulam omnia judicia conclusa et comprehensa sint,

id. Rosc. Com. 5, 15:

(Cato) verbis luculentioribus et pluribus rem eandem comprehenderat,

id. Att. 12, 21, 1:

ipsa natura circumscriptione quādam verborum comprehendit concluditque sententiam,

id. Brut. 8, 34:

in eā (terrā) enim et lapis et harena et cetera ejus generis sunt in nominando comprehensa,

Varr. R. R. 1, 9, 1:

emplastra quoque, quae supra comprehensa sunt,

Cels. 5, 27, 3; so absol.:

ad veterum rerum nostrarum memoriam comprehendendam impulsi sumus,

Cic. Brut. 5, 19:

aliquid dictis,

Ov. M. 13, 160:

quae si comprendere coner,

id. Tr. 5, 2, 27. —

Poet.: aliquid numero, to number, enumerate:

neque enim numero comprendere refert,

Verg. G. 2, 104; Ov. A. A. 2, 447; cf.:

numerum quorum comprendere non est,

id. Tr. 5, 11, 19.—

To comprehend any one in affection, to bind to one's self, to put under obligation, to embrace with kindness (rare;

mostly in Cic.): multos amicitiā, tueri obsequio, etc.,

to have many friends, Cic. Cael. 6, 13:

adulescentem humanitate tuā,

id. Fam. 13, 15, 3:

quod omnibus officiis per se, per patrem, per majores suos totam Atinatem praefecturam comprehenderit,

id. Planc. 19. 47.—

To shut in, include (late Lat.):

spiritum in effigiem,

Lact. 4, 8, 9:

elementorum figurae humanā specie comprehensae,

id. 2, 6, 1.

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af-fīgo (better adf-), ixi, ixum, 3, v. a. (affixet for affixisset, Sil. 14, 536), to fix or fasten to or upon, to affix, annex, attach to; constr. with ad or dat.

Lit.:

sidera aetherieis adfixa caverneis,

Lucr. 4, 392:

corpus,

id. 4, 1104; 4, 1238:

litteram ad caput,

to affix as a brand, Cic. Rosc. Am. 20 fin.:

Minerva, cui pinnarum talaria adfigunt,

id. N. D. 3, 23:

Prometheus adfixus Caucaso,

id. Tusc. 5, 3, 8: aliquem patibulo, Sall. Fragm. ap. Non. 4, 355:

aliquem cuspide ad terram,

Liv. 4, 19:

aliquem cruci adfigere,

id. 28, 37:

signa Punicis Adfixa delubris,

Hor. C. 3, 5, 19:

lecto te adfixit,

id. S. 1, 1, 81 (cf. Sen. Ep. 67:

senectus me lectulo adfixit): radicem terrae,

Verg. G. 2, 318:

flammam lateri (turris),

id. A. 9, 536 al. —

Trop., to fix on, imprint or impress on:

aliquid animo,

to impress upon the mind, Quint. 2, 7, 18, and Sen. Ep. 11:

litteras pueris,

to imprint on their memory, Quint. 1, 1, 25.—Hence, adfixus, a, um, P. a.

Fastened to a person or thing, joined to; constr. alicui or ad rem:

jubes eum mihi esse adfixum tamquam magistro,

Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 6:

me sibi ille adfixum habebit,

id. Fam. 1, 8:

nos in exiguā parte terrae adfixi,

id. Rep. 1, 17:

anus adfixa foribus,

Tib. 1, 6, 61:

Tarraconensis adfixa Pyrenaeo,

situated close to, Plin. 3, 2, § 6. — Trop., impressed on, fixed to:

causa in animo sensuque meo penitus adfixa atque insita,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 53:

quae semper adfixa esse videntur ad rem neque ab eā possunt separari,

id. Inv. 1, 26 al. —

In the Latin of the Pandects: adfixa, ōrum, n., the appendages or appurtenances belonging to a possession:

domum instructam legavit cum omnibus adfixis,

with all pertaining thereto, all the fixtures, Dig. 33, 7, 18 fin.